Re: N810 is totally useless.
 

qole nailed it on the head. Nice thing with Ubuntu: even as one of the easiest distro's to get into, it sacrifices none of the power.

Can't go wrong.

edit: I wanted to mention installing and uninstalling software since it's applicable to both OS's. The most granular way to do so is at the terminal with the command 'sudo apt-get install <pkg_name>'. To remove an application, run the command 'sudo apt-get --purge autoremove <pkg_name>'. I mention it because a 'normal' remove will leave the config files in place and the dependencies installed, which is handy if you're going to install the app again, but otherwise takes up space. Unlike Windows with it's crufty registry, there shouldn't be a performance hit, but it's still useless crap just sitting in the file system.

Re: N810 is totally useless.
 

Sorry, but the contest was, "First person to show uselessness." So, I win with an "*" because Omega was actually first. Did you not get the memo?

Re: N810 is totally useless.
 

I win because nothing is more useless than egging the conversation on.

You all owe me an apology.

Re: N810 is totally useless.
 

I won't contest you. My first computer was a functional, but boring, IBM PC. My father was an IBM mainframe guy and wouldn't have anything less.

During high school I did set up, though never opened to others, a Wildcat BBS on a 386. As I didn't have much hard drive space on the 386, I hooked up my VTech Laser Turbo XT via Lantastic/Z to store part of the BBS on its 20 MB RLL drive.

I used the U.S. Robotics 2400 baud modem from that setup well into college, as the university's modem bank was all 2400 baud anyway. I loved that the modem had a Morse code mode. I never found a use for it, but I missed it on later modems never the less.

I still have an external U.S. Robotics V.Everything modem. It'll be upgradable to all those new, faster analogue modem standards that will come along. They promised, and you just wait. I wasn't rooked.

Re: N810 is totally useless.
 

argh, i had to restore from partition, vista :-/ ... i need to find my xp disc.

anywho, am i gonna hit any snags tryin to set it up to dual boot vista and ubuntu?

suggestions?

Re: N810 is totally useless.
 

No, but you must do Vista first. Ubuntu will take care of the rest. Just read carefully while you're doing the Ubuntu install.

EDIT:

For simplicity, maybe give each OS a little less than half the disk. Ubuntu is gonna wanna make a swap partition, so maybe save some disk space that is the size of your memory or larger.

Say you had a 500 GB hard disk with 1 GB of RAM. When Ubuntu is done partitioning you would have 3 partitions like this:

Vista: 249 GB
Ubuntu: 249 GB
linux swap: 1 GB

Something like that.

Re: N810 is totally useless.
 

Hey I'm a total linux newbie. If I wanted to use that command line to remove a certain program say canola, would I simply type "sudo apt-get --purge autoremove canola" or would the package name be something different?
If so, how would I find out what the package name is? Is there a way to list the different packages installed?

Thanks

Re: N810 is totally useless.
 

My first assignment in the military had one of these babies:
http://railroad-signaling.com/tty/tn_m28_jpg.jpg

Honkin', screamin', 75 baud!

Concur. Ubuntu (or Kubuntu, if you're a KDE fan) "just works".

Since we're waaaay OT, anyway....
 

got it installed, but i can't connect to my wifi network... it recognizes that the network is there, i enter the passphrase, but then it asks me for the passphrase again.

Re: N810 is totally useless.
 

apt-cache search <title/description>

In the case of canola, the package name is 'canola2'